"of large passenger iron ships in the 1840s. In 1835 the Clyde produced only 5 per cent of the ship tonnage built in Britain. The transition from wooden to iron ships was an uneven one, with wooden ships still cheaper to build until around 1850 and the material continued to be used until the 1860s in ships with composite hulls, like the clipper the ""Cutty Sark"", which was launched from Dumbarton in 1869. Cost also delayed the transition from iron to steel shipbuilding and as late as 1879 only 18,000 tons of steel-built shipping was launched on the Clyde, 10"
"episode ""The Gang Runs for Office"". Cutty Sark (whisky) Cutty Sark is a range of blended Scotch whisky produced by Edrington plc of Glasgow, whose main office is less than ten miles from the birthplace of the famous clipper ship of the same name. The whisky was created on 23 March 1923 as a product of Berry Bros. & Rudd, with the home of the blend considered to be at The Glenrothes distillery in the Speyside region of Scotland. The name comes from the River Clyde–built clipper ship ""Cutty Sark"", whose name came from the Scots language term ""cutty-sark"", the"
"Cutty Sark (whisky) Cutty Sark is a range of blended Scotch whisky produced by Edrington plc of Glasgow, whose main office is less than ten miles from the birthplace of the famous clipper ship of the same name. The whisky was created on 23 March 1923 as a product of Berry Bros. & Rudd, with the home of the blend considered to be at The Glenrothes distillery in the Speyside region of Scotland. The name comes from the River Clyde–built clipper ship ""Cutty Sark"", whose name came from the Scots language term ""cutty-sark"", the short shirt [skirt] prominently mentioned in"
"Scotland to the Netherlands to prepare for transport to Australia. In late November 2013, loaded on the deck of a cargo ship, ""City of Adelaide"" departed Europe bound for Port Adelaide, Australia, where she arrived on 3 February 2014. ""City of Adelaide"" is the world's oldest surviving clipper ship, of only two that survive — the other is ""Cutty Sark"" (built 1869; a tea-clipper and now a museum ship and tourist attraction in Greenwich, south London). With ""Cutty Sark"" and (built 1878; a sloop-of-war in Chatham), ""City of Adelaide"" is one of only three surviving ocean-going ships of composite construction"
"ship, she spent her final trading years as a barquentine. She was dismasted in 1916 but restored in 1922 then used as a training ship. ""Cutty Sark"" was taken over by a preservation society in 1952 and moved to Greenwich. In 2007 she was damaged by fire during restoration work but is now repaired and offers visitors tours as well as a souvenir shop and a coffee shop. HM Bark ""Endeavour"" was built in 1768 as a collier at Whitby. She was full rigged ship and sturdily built with a large hold. ""Endeavour's"" flat bottomed hull was well suited for"
"other clippers in the tea trade from China and later in the wool trade from Australia. She was capable of sailing at over . Built as a full rigged ship, she spent her final trading years as a barquentine. She was dismasted in 1916 but restored in 1922 then used as a training ship. ""Cutty Sark"" was taken over by a preservation society in 1952 and moved to Greenwich. In 2007 she was damaged by fire during restoration work but is to be repaired. RMS ""Queen Mary"" was built in 1936 by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland for"
"1869 near Punta Arenas, Chile. The ship has been damaged by fire twice in recent years, first on 21 May 2007 while undergoing conservation. She was restored and was reopened to the public on 25 April 2012. On 19 October 2014 she was damaged in a smaller fire. ""Cutty Sark"" was ordered by shipping magnate John Willis, who operated a shipping company founded by his father. The company had a fleet of clippers and regularly took part in the tea trade from China to Britain. Speed was a clear advantage to a merchant ship, but it also created prestige for"
"Hercules Linton Hercules Linton (1 January 1837 – 15 May 1900) was a Scottish surveyor, designer, shipbuilder, antiquarian and local councillor, best known as the designer of the ""Cutty Sark"" and partner in the yard of Scott and Linton, which built her. He was born in Inverbervie, the Mearns, Scotland. In 1855 on his nineteenth birthday, Hercules Linton was apprenticed to Alexander Hall and Sons, who were the leading shipbuilders in Aberdeen and whose schooner ""Scottish Maid"" (1839) with its sharp bow and entry helped coin the term Aberdeen Bow. Linton progressed through his apprenticeship and eventually rose to a"
"Cutty Sark Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development, which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion. The opening of the Suez Canal (also in 1869) meant that steamships now enjoyed a much shorter route to China, so ""Cutty Sark"" spent only a few years on the tea trade before turning to the trade in wool from Australia,"
"Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited, often referred to simply as Scotts, was a Scottish shipbuilding company based in Greenock on the River Clyde. In its time in Greenock, Scotts built over 1,250 ships. John Scott founded the company, beginning shipbuilding at Greenock in 1711. The Scott family took over the Greenock Foundry in 1790 and C G Scott started building at Cartsdyke Dockyard in 1850 as Scott & Company. John Scott (II) and Robert Scott bought the adjacent yard of R Steele & Company in 1883 to create the Cartsburn Dockyard, which was laid"
"involvement in a shipyard accident. Cash flow problems were such that all work in the Scott & Linton yard was suspended in the first week of September. Rather than apply for the company to be liquidated, the creditors met and decided to complete some or all of the outstanding contracts and a financial agreement was reached with William Denny & Bros to complete the ships. ""Cutty Sark"" was eventually launched on 22 November 1869, nearly five months late, by Captain Moodie’s wife. ""Cutty Sark"" was then moved to Denny's yard on the other side of the River Leven to have"
"Cutty Sark (yacht) Not to be confused with the famous tea clipper, the private steam yacht Cutty Sark was built, from plates originally destined for an S class destroyer, by Yarrow and Co Ltd of Scotstoun for Major Henry Keswick (1870–1928) of Jardine’s. She was launched on 18 March 1920. She had a length of ; beam of and draught of , and a gross registered tonnage of 883. Originally she had 4 Yarrow turbines of giving her a speed of . Though fast, she was uncomfortable in anything like a sea. Major Keswick took her on a round the"
"In May 2006 the Scottish Maritime Museum applied again to North Ayrshire Council for consent to deconstruct the ship, at an estimated cost of £650,000. After the proposal was gazetted by the council 132 letters of objection were received, including representations from preservation groups in Sunderland and Australia, and from several Australian institutions. On 18 April 2007 North Ayrshire Council approved the application to deconstruct of the clipper, subject to the approval of Historic Scotland. Just a few weeks later a major fire broke out on ""Cutty Sark"", prompting a rethink on the future of the only other substantially surviving"
"dry dock was laid by The Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the Cutty Sark Preservation Society, in June 1953. The restoration, re-rigging and preparation for public exhibition was estimated to cost £250,000. ""Cutty Sark"" whisky derives its name from the ship. An image of the clipper appears on the label, and the maker formerly sponsored the Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Race. The ship also inspired the name of the Saunders Roe Cutty Sark flying boat. ""Cutty Sark"" was preserved as a museum ship, and has since become a popular tourist attraction, and part of the National Historic Fleet. She is"
"By 1954, she had ceased to be useful as a cadet ship and was transferred to permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London, for public display. ""Cutty Sark"" is listed by National Historic Ships as part of the National Historic Fleet (the nautical equivalent of a Grade 1 Listed Building). She is one of only three remaining original composite construction (wooden hull on an iron frame) clipper ships from the nineteenth century in part or whole, the others being the , which arrived in Port Adelaide, South Australia on 3 February 2014 for preservation, and the beached skeleton of ""Ambassador"" of"
"maintenance costs. Each of the three masts (fore, main and mizzen) is in three overlapping sections. Cutty Sark Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development, which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion. The opening of the Suez Canal (also in 1869) meant that steamships now enjoyed a much shorter route to China, so ""Cutty Sark"" spent only"
"Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich DLR station Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich is a light metro station on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) Bank-Lewisham Line in Greenwich, south-east London, so named for its proximity to the Cutty Sark in the Maritime Greenwich district. It is the most central of the Greenwich DLR stations, being situated in Greenwich Town Centre. The northernmost of the Greenwich DLR stations, Cutty Sark is located in the Maritime Greenwich district of south-eastern London. Its name comes from the clipper ship named Cutty Sark which is housed 200 metres to the north of the station; in"
"purpose-built museum on part of the site of the old Deptford Dockyard where the original ""Lenox"" was built. By late 2015 the project had gained momentum, with more detailed plans fitting the building of the ""Lenox"" into the overall development of Convoys Wharf, as the old Dockyard site is now known. If and when completed, the ""Lenox"" dock and museum would be within walking distance of the Cutty Sark museum in Greenwich. HMS Lenox (1678) HMS ""Lenox"" was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 18 April 1678. She was"
"made famous, partially by Robert Burns' poem, ""Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation"", which in the first verse says: The poem's subject was the alleged sale of Scotland in the Anglo-Scottish Treaty of Union. The most famous town on the Sark is Gretna Green, best known for its wedding industry. The A74 motorway passes over it. The area around the Sark was notoriously marshy and sandy, as much of the coast of the north west Irish Sea is. The small section between the lower end of the Sark and the River Esk is known as the ""debatable lands"","
"where she held the record time to Britain for ten years. Improvements in steam technology meant that gradually steamships also came to dominate the longer sailing route to Australia, and the ship was sold to the Portuguese company Ferreira and Co. in 1895 and renamed ""Ferreira"". She continued as a cargo ship until purchased in 1922 by retired sea captain Wilfred Dowman, who used her as a training ship operating from Falmouth, Cornwall. After his death, ""Cutty Sark"" was transferred to the Thames Nautical Training College, Greenhithe in 1938 where she became an auxiliary cadet training ship alongside HMS ""Worcester""."
"and eventually left to go to Montrose where his tenth and last child, a daughter was borne in December 1884. Linton's wife Marjory died in January 1885 which affected him deeply. In 1895 he was living in Inverbervie and in November of that year was elected to the Town Council. Hercules Linton was aged 64 when he died on 15 May 1900 due to heart trouble. Hercules Linton Hercules Linton (1 January 1837 – 15 May 1900) was a Scottish surveyor, designer, shipbuilder, antiquarian and local councillor, best known as the designer of the ""Cutty Sark"" and partner in the"
"City of York (barque) City of York was a 1,194 ton iron ship which sank after hitting a reef off Rottnest Island in the last few kilometres of its voyage from San Francisco to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1899. The three masted, 68 metre (223 feet) long, iron hulled ship was built in 1869 by Glasgow shipbuilders J. Elder and Company. The British owners were the 'Ship City of York Company'. It had only just been beaten by the famous ""Cutty Sark"" in the 1885 ""Great Race"", a race from China to London in which large profits were earned by"
"that cash flow problems emerged during the building of their first order, the small iron steamship ""Camel"", for which there appeared to be no contracted stage payments during the build. Work had to be completed in October and the completed vessel delivered to J. Bibby & Co in Newcastle at which point Scott & Linton would then receive the full purchase price of £980. The agreement to build the ""Cutty Sark"" was signed by John 'Jock' Willis (also known as 'White Hat' Willis) on 1 February 1869 with a contracted completion date six months later on 30 July 1869. Willis"
"She was sold to Thos W Ward, shipbreakers, and in September she made her last short journey to their yard at Grays. The ""Cutty Sark"" was broken up by April 1948. Cutty Sark (yacht) Not to be confused with the famous tea clipper, the private steam yacht Cutty Sark was built, from plates originally destined for an S class destroyer, by Yarrow and Co Ltd of Scotstoun for Major Henry Keswick (1870–1928) of Jardine’s. She was launched on 18 March 1920. She had a length of ; beam of and draught of , and a gross registered tonnage of 883."
"which is a Scotch blended whisky, is probably his most famous ship painting. The clipper ship ""Cutty Sark"" was one of the most famous clipper ships that sailed under Brittiska Ostindiska Kompaniet (British East India Company). In 1953 he traveled for study purposes to a lot of countries, he went to Germany, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Algeria, Cyprus, Greece, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and Italy. Carl Wallin was living in Svanshall, where he also had his studio. He initiated the formation of the maritime museum in Svanshall, founded in 1959 and located in the deckhouse to the S/S Ribersborg."
"located near the centre of Greenwich, in south-east London, close aboard the National Maritime Museum, the former Greenwich Hospital, and Greenwich Park. She is also a prominent landmark on the route of the London Marathon. She usually flies signal flags from her ensign halyard reading ""JKWS"", which is the code representing ""Cutty Sark"" in the International Code of Signals, introduced in 1857. The ship is in the care of the Cutty Sark Trust, whose president, the Duke of Edinburgh, was instrumental in ensuring her preservation, when he set up the Cutty Sark Society in 1951. The Trust replaced the Society"
"west of the harbour. Burwick, Orkney Burwick is a small village and harbour on the island of South Ronaldsay in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. It is the closest Orkney harbour to the Scottish mainland and is the terminus of a passenger ferry which operates in the summer to John o'Groats in Caithness. The name was first recorded in about 1225 as ""Bardvik"", derived from the Old Norse ""bar vík"", meaning ""bay of the extremity"", for its position near the southernmost point of the island. The remains of the Castle of Burwick, a defended Iron Age fort and probable secondary monastic"
"was painted by the Anglo-US marine artist Robert Salmon. (Glasgow Museum of Transport). Before the Cartsdyke yard closed in the late 1980s it was used to film part of a BBC Television ""Play for Today"" called ""Just a Boys' Game"". In 2011, Greenock's McLean Museum and Art Gallery celebrated the tercentenary of Scotts' foundation. Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited, often referred to simply as Scotts, was a Scottish shipbuilding company based in Greenock on the River Clyde. In its time in Greenock, Scotts built over 1,250 ships. John Scott founded the company, beginning shipbuilding"
"Linthouse Linthouse is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated south of the River Clyde and lies immediately west of Govan. Although it is currently located within Govan (Ward 05) of Glasgow City Council and is often referred to locally as 'Govan', it was in fact a distinct area separate from Govan until 1901 when it willfully became part of Govan Burgh until 1912 when the Burgh was annexed to Glasgow. Linthouse was home to the shipbuilder Alexander Stephen and Sons Limited who built many famous vessels for the Royal Navy in the 20th Century. Linthouse"
"The Firth of Clyde like the River Clyde has historically been an important centre of shipbuilding and shipping. In addition to the shipbuilding and engineering centres up river of Glasgow, Govan, Clydebank, Dumbarton and Renfrew the lower river developed major yards at Greenock, Port Glasgow and smaller ones at Irvine, Ardrossan, Troon and Campbeltown and boatyards including Hunters Quay, Port Bannatyne and Fairlie. Ferguson Shipbuilders yard, adjacent to Newark Castle, Port Glasgow, remains. Greenock is the site of one of the world's largest dry dock and ship-repair facilities at Inchgreen. The dry dock there is 305 m long and 44"
"Portsoy Portsoy () is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The original name may come from ""Port Saoithe"", meaning ""saithe harbour"". Portsoy is located on the Moray Firth Coast of North East Scotland, 50 miles North West of Aberdeen & 65 miles East of Inverness. It had a population of 1752 persons at the time of the 2011 census. Portsoy is known for local jewellery made from ""Portsoy marble"" (which is not marble, but rather serpentinite). The annual Scottish Traditional Boat Festival was started in 1993 to celebrate the 300th year of the harbour. Portsoy, notably the harbour, has featured in"
"Sark opened on 26 April 2012 and the entire collection was shown for the first time. Sydney Cumbers Sydney ""Long John Silver"" Cumbers (27 October 1875 – 10 September 1959) was a British businessman and collector of Merchant Navy memorabilia. He was noted for his large collection of ships' figureheads that he maintained at his house in Gravesend, and which he later donated to the Cutty Sark museum. Cumbers was born in 1875 in Hackney, London, to Charles and Matilda Cumbers. He lost the use of an eye in an accident at age 12, after which he took to wearing"
"her. Dowman died in 1936 and the ship was sold to the Incorporated Thames Nautical Training College, HMS ""Worcester"" at Greenhithe, leaving Falmouth for her last journey under sail in 1938. The ship was crewed by cadets, 15-year-old Robert Wyld steering the ship during the voyage. Ian Bryce, DSC, the last surviving crew member on the historic journey from Falmouth to the Thames died, aged 89, on 11 December 2011. At Greenhithe ""Cutty Sark"" acted as an auxiliary vessel to for sail training drill, but by 1950 she had become surplus to requirements. From February to October 1951 she was"